Nurturing will help children get through an eating disorder

Helen O’Callaghan looks at a successful therapy programme that encourages parents to be understanding and compassionate about their child’s eating disorder.

ON a hot day during a Spanish holiday, a Dublin-based GP watched her 13-year-old daughter stand shivering beside the pool.

The young teen — who once swam like a dolphin — was skin and bone, due to an eating disorder that had begun over a year earlier.